Bob Gilmore (6 June 1961 – 2 January 2015) was a

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

, educator and keyboard player. Born in

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory) is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 Census. It is a major passenger and freight Roll-on/ro ...

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, he spent his early years in

Carrickfergus Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,998 at the 2011 Census. It is County Antrim's oldest t ...

. He studied music at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

, England, then at

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(PhD. 1992), and, on a Fulbright Scholarship, at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

. He is best known for his books on American music: he wrote ''Harry Partch: A Biography'' (

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Universi ...

, 1998) and edited with an introduction ''"Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music'' (

University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic project ...

, 2006—collected writings by Ben Johnston), both of which were recipients of the

Deems Taylor Award Joseph Deems Taylor (December 22, 1885 – July 3, 1966) was an American music critic, composer, and promoter of classical music. Nat Benchley, co-editor of ''The Lost Algonquin Roundtable'', referred to him as "the dean of American music." Ear ...

from

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

. He also wrote extensively on the American experimental tradition,

microtonal music Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of tw ...

and

spectral music Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition. Definition Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often inform ...

, including the work of such figures as

James Tenney James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microto ...

Horațiu Rădulescu Horațiu Rădulescu (; 7 January 1942 – 25 September 2008) was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition. Life Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandres ...

Claude Vivier Claude Vivier ( ; baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian contemporary composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin. After studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Vivier became an i ...

, and

Frank Denyer Frank Denyer (born April 12, 1943 in London) is a composer. His music uses a combination of conventional instruments and new, unusual, and structurally modified instruments. Partly due to his studies of non-Western music, much of Denyer's music i ...

. He wrote on the work of younger Irish composers including

Deirdre Gribbin Deirdre Gribbin (born 14 May 1967) is a composer from Northern Ireland. Career Gribbin was born in Belfast. She studied at Queen's University Belfast where, at the age of twenty, she began to compose. Further studies were in London (at the Guildh ...

Donnacha Dennehy Donnacha Dennehy (born 17 August 1970) is an Irish composer and leader of the Crash Ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. According to musicologist Bob Gilmore, Dennehy's "high profile of his compositions internationally, togeth ...

and

Jennifer Walshe Jennifer Walshe (born 1 June 1974) is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist. Biography Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, ...

in the ''

Journal of Music in Ireland ''Journal of Music'' (formerly ''Journal of Music in Ireland'', or ''JMI'') is an Irish music magazine founded in 2000. It "has been a critical voice in Traditional and Contemporary musics since 2000". In 2009 it was relaunched as the ''Journal of ...

''. He taught at Queen's University Belfast,

Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...

, and

Brunel University Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June ...

in London, and was a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

. He was the founder, director and keyboard player of Trio Scordatura, an Amsterdam-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of microtonal music, and for the year 2014 was editor of ''

Tempo In musical terminology, tempo (Italian, 'time'; plural ''tempos'', or ''tempi'' from the Italian plural) is the speed or pace of a given piece. In classical music, tempo is typically indicated with an instruction at the start of a piece (often ...

'', a quarterly journal of new music. His biography of French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was published by University of Rochester Press in June 2014.

Bibliography

* Gilmore, Bob. 1995. "Changing the Metaphor: Ratio Models of Musical Pitch in the Work of

Harry Partch Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century com ...

, Ben Johnston, and

", ''

Perspectives of New Music ''Perspectives of New Music'' (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It was established in 1962 by Arthur Berger and Benjamin Boretz (who were its initial editors-in-chief). ''Perspectives'' was first ...

'' 33, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter–Summer 1995): 458–503. * Gilmore, Bob. 1998. ''Harry Partch: A Biography''. New Haven, Connecticut:

. . * Gilmore, Bob. 2003. "'Wild Ocean': An Interview with

". ''Contemporary Music Review'' 22, nos. 1–2 (March–June): 105–122. * Gilmore, Bob. 2003. "The Climate Since Harry Partch", ''Contemporary Music Review'' 22 (1 and 2): 15–33. * Gilmore, Bob. 2005. "Composition as Vandalism: The Music of

", ''

'' 5(6): 29–33. * Johnston, Ben. 2006. ''Maximum Clarity' and Other Writings on Music'' (edited with an introduction by Bob Gilmore). Urbana and Chicago:

. . * Gilmore, Bob. 2006. "Minimalism Schminimalism", ''Journal of Music in Ireland'' 6(1): 6–9. * Gilmore, Bob. 2006
"Wild Air:
The Music of

Kevin Volans Kevin Volans (born 26 July 1949) is a South African born Irish composer and pianist. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the ''Neue Einfacheit'' (New Simplicity) mov ...

". ''Journal of Music in Ireland'' 6(6), 22–29.] * Gilmore, Bob. 2007. "On

's ''Lonely Child''". ''

'', new series 61, no. 239: 2–17. * Gilmore, Bob. 2007. "An Interview with

Phill Niblock Phill Niblock (born October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms ...

", ''Paris Transatlantic Magazine''. * Gilmore, Bob. 2007. "Don't Do PERMISSION ISN'T: The Music of

", ''Journal of Music in Ireland'' 7 (4): 20–24. * Gilmore, Bob. 2008. "James Tenney and the poetics of homage", ''Contemporary Music Review'' 27 (1): 7–21. * Gilmore, Bob. 2008. "Resonant Air: the music of

Michael Alcorn Michael Alcorn (born 22 January 1962) is a full-time academic and current Director of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queen's University, Belfast and a partite composer. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Michael Alcorn studied at ...

", ''Journal of Music in Ireland'' 8 (1): 28–32. * Gilmore, Bob. 2008. "All Collisions End in Static: The Music of Linda Buckley", ''Journal of Music in Ireland'' 8 (5): 28–32. * * Gilmore, Bob and Hirs, R. 2009. ''Contemporary Compositional Techniques And Openmusic'' Editions Delatour France/

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

-Centre Pompidou. * Gilmore, Bob. 2009. "Music by Committee", ''

The Journal of Music ''Journal of Music'' (formerly ''Journal of Music in Ireland'', or ''JMI'') is an Irish music magazine founded in 2000. It "has been a critical voice in Traditional and Contemporary musics since 2000". In 2009 it was relaunched as the ''Journal of ...

'' 1 (1):20. * Gilmore, Bob. 2009. "Remembering Horatiu", ''The Journal of Music'' 1 (2): 20–21. * Gilmore, Bob. 2009. "He’s Just Not That Into You", ''The Journal of Music'' 1 (2): 20–21. * Gilmore, Bob. 2007
"Interview with Clarence Barlow".
''Paris Transatlantic Magazine''. * Gilmore, Bob. 2009. "Claude Vivier and

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

: Moments from a Double Portrait"
''Circuit: musiques contemporaines'' 19, no. 2:35–49
(Subscription access) * Gilmore, Bob. 2009
"James Tenney: Spectrum Pieces"
Liner notes.

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, Composer'' (Tilburg: teleXpress) * Gilmore, Bob. 2011
"An Interview
with Frederic Rzewski". ''Paris Transatlantic Magazine''. * Gilmore, Bob. 2012
"Difficult Listening Hour”
in ''The Journal of Music''. * Gilmore, Bob, 2012. "Making a Friend", Liner notes to: ". nearly – fast". Darmstadt: Coviello Contemporary. * Gilmore, Bob. 2012. "Phill Niblock: The Orchestra Pieces". ''Tempo'' vol. 66 no. 244, 2–11. * Gilmore, Bob. 2014. ''Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life''. University of Rochester Press. .

References

External links

Trio Scordatura
(Alfrun Schmid – mezzo-soprano, Elisabeth Smalt – viola, Bob Gilmore – keyboard) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilmore, Bob 1961 births 2015 deaths Musicians from County Antrim People from Carrickfergus Fulbright alumni
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